Manufacturing hollow rubber articles



(No Model.)

I E. L. PERRY. MANUFACTURING HOLLOW RUBBER ARTICLES.

No. 472,225. Patented Apr.:5, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. PERRY, OF PATERSON, JERSEY.

MANUFACTURING HOL LOW RUBBER ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,225, dated April 5, 1892.

Application filed April 22, 1891- Serial No. 389,895. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. PERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manufacturing Hollow Rubber Articles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the an- [O neXed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a sectional View of a hollow rubber article, such I 5 as an oil-can, showing the bottom and body thereof separated; Fig. 2, a side elevation, partly in broken section,showing the bottom connected to the body.

The present invention has relation to the method of manufacturing hollow rubber articlessuch as oil-cans and the like-wherein it is necessary to provide the interior with an oil or acid proof coating in order to render such article capable of holding oils, acids, al-

kalies, and other chemical liquids; and the invention consists in the method of manufacture, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings I have 0 shown a rubber oil-can as one of many hollow articles to which my invention is applicable, the spout thereof not being shown, the can, as shown,consisting of two parts-viz.,the body A and bottom B, of rubber. These two parts tuting, in the present instance, the body and bottom of an oil-can are united or firmly con nected by pressure or in any other preferred manner.

\Vhen my invention is applied to oil-cans, it may be found advisable to use an interposed layer of duck or other suitable material, as shown at b, for the purpose of strengthening it at this point and preventing it from wearing through by continued pressure thereon, this feature materially enhancing the value of such an article with respect to its durabiL ity and wear.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An oil-can consisting of a rubber body provided with an oil and acid proof coating and a separately-formed shouldered rubber bottom having an independent acid and oil proof coating, said body and bottom being united with the said coatings in contact with each other, substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described method of forming hollow rubber receptacles, which consists in first forming the body and bottom separately, coating the interior of the body and the upper face of the bottom with an acid and oil proof material, and then applying heat and pressure to homogeneously unite the body and bottom and bringing said coatings in contact with each other, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

EDWVARD L. PERRY.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. FOWLER, L. O. HILLS. 

